Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262280AbTEIDI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 23:08:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262281AbTEIDI4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 23:08:56 -0400 Received: from fmr02.intel.com ([192.55.52.25]:34809 "EHLO caduceus.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262280AbTEIDIz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 23:08:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=27J=F6rn_Engel=27?= , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" Cc: "'jw schultz'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: RE: Swap Compression Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 20:21:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1301 Lines: 33 > From: J?rn Engel [mailto:joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de] > > On Wed, 7 May 2003 20:17:32 -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > This reminds me of some howto I saw somewhere of someway to > > use the MTD drivers to access the unused video RAM and turn > > it into swap (maybe with blkmtd?) ... probably it can be done > > with that too. > > Jupp, if you know the physical address range of the RAM, it's a piece > of cake. Except that the slram option parsing is not user-friendly, > with me being an examplary user. It should be ... I need to find some time to dig that howto and try to do it ... > For memory above 4GB, things are harder. Basically you'd have to write > a new mtd driver that copies some of the highmem code. Maybe a day or > two plus testing. Ok, right to the stack of 'would be nice to work on' stuff. The "feeling" thing is going to be groovy to test - I guess some parallel kernel compiles would do - hmmm ... will think about it. Thanks, I?aky P?rez-Gonz?lez -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/